The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American LiteraturePeter Lang, 1996 - 142 pagina's How and when does literature most effectively uncover race to be a mataphor? The passing figure, a light-skinned African-American capable and willing to pass for white, provides the thematic focus to this provocative study. In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race. |
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... movie , Jakie leaves home rather than sing the " Kol Nidre , " a song of atonement , setting out instead to sing jazz , a music of liberation . This connection between the " Kol Nidre " and jazz is reestab- lished at the end of the movie ...
... movie , Jakie leaves home rather than sing the " Kol Nidre , " a song of atonement , setting out instead to sing jazz , a music of liberation . This connection between the " Kol Nidre " and jazz is reestab- lished at the end of the movie ...
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... movie theaters , continue to have a public through video rentals , and promise to become classics . It is necessary , therefore , to explain why M. Butterfly more fruitfully represents the current obsession with gender passing than any ...
... movie theaters , continue to have a public through video rentals , and promise to become classics . It is necessary , therefore , to explain why M. Butterfly more fruitfully represents the current obsession with gender passing than any ...
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... movie - flesh and blood is what's required . Although metaphors could not carry the movie , they did carry the play . It seems to me that these reviewers are too quick to attribute the greater success of the play and the failure of the ...
... movie - flesh and blood is what's required . Although metaphors could not carry the movie , they did carry the play . It seems to me that these reviewers are too quick to attribute the greater success of the play and the failure of the ...
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An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
Copyright | |
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
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